After school, Oren picks up Avery and Eli. Alisa is in the passenger seat, and Landon is in the back working urgently on her phone. Alisa insists the situation is under control, but Avery immediately realizes there is a new crisis.

Alisa explains that Skye and Ricky Grambs are trying to sell themselves as an interview package to the highest bidder. To stop that story from reaching the public, Alisa and Landon plan to make the buyer bury the interview instead, using Avery’s first public interview as leverage.

Landon says the network will pay for exclusivity from Skye and agree not to air the interview, but only if Avery agrees to sit down with them by the next night. Alisa and Landon negotiate terms around exclusivity, embargoes, and whether Avery’s representatives can speak elsewhere, while Avery struggles to keep up and objects to being ignored.

Avery realizes the strategy: give the network access to her in exchange for suppressing Skye and Ricky’s interview and contractually preventing them from selling the story elsewhere. When Avery asks why they care so much, Alisa insists that they do. Alisa then tells Landon to offer a Wednesday interview with Avery and Grayson Hawthorne.